TURKISH THREATS ON ITALIAN AND TURKISH JOURNALISTS
By Jean Eckian
AZG Armenian Daily
03/12/2008
Armenian Genocide
The Italian journalist-writer Alberto Rosselli, author of "Olocausto
armeno" (The Armenian holocaust) is death threat, announces the Italian
press. And in Belgium, Dogan Ozguden, journalist and founder of news
agency "Info-Turk", is threatened of lynching by ultra nationalist
Turkish press, but also by the embassy and Turkish press in Belgium.
Concerning the writer Alberto Rosselli, the death threats began a
few months after the publication of its book in 2007. They continued
until on October 26, 2008. Police detected that the phone calls were
based from abroad, as well as the mails. The authors of the threats
know perfectly the practices of Rosselli and his wife. And even the
name of their dog.
The affair of Mr. Dogan Ozguden began after itself denounced, November
11, 2008, in an official statement, the defamatory and scandalous
remarks of the Turkish Minister of defense, Vecdi Gonul. Which, during
a speech made in honor of anniversary’s died of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
in Turkish embassy (Brussels), said: "The decision to deported the
Greeks and Armenians at the beginning of the last century allowed
the unification of Turkish people." He affirmed that the creation
of a Turkish nation would have been possible thanks to this policy
ordered by Ataturk.
Defender of the Armenian cause, Dogan Ozguden fled Turkey on 1971,
after the revolution. He deposited an official complaint for threats
on his person.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
